The Supreme Court and elections
Subtitle: into the political thicket
By: Charles L. Zelden.
Series: The supreme court's power in American politics series
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780872895263
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History; Election law -- United States -- History; Suffrage -- United States -- History; Elections -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.Voting and the Courts -- The Courts Opt Out: Early Voting Litigation -- Voting as a Civil Right: The Impact (and Nonimpact) of the Civil Rights Amendments in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Assuring Equal Access to the Polls: The Court Responds to African American Disenfranchisement -- Massive Resistance: The Federal Courts Struggle in Their Response to Race-Based Disenfranchisement as the Stage Is Set for Substantive Change -- One Person, One Vote? The Reapportionment Cases -- Expanding the Vote: Enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- The Troubling Problem of Vote Dilution: The Rise and Decline of Majority-Minority Districts -- Regulating the Mechanics of Elections and Electoral Reform -- Conclusion -- Origins and Foundations. Debates of the Federal Constitutional Convention, August 7, 1787 -- The Constitution of the United States, 1787 -- Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, 1804-1971 -- Titles 2 and 3: The United States Code -- Title 42: The United States Code -- The Federalist Papers, Nos. 59 and 60, February 22 and 26, 1788 -- The Antifederalist Papers, Nos. 59, 61, and 72, 1787-1788 -- The Court Says “No”.  Luther v. Borden Decided January 3, 1849 -- Elk v. Wilkins Decided November 3, 1884 -- The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873 -- Minor v. Happersett Decided 1874 -- Isabella Beecher Hooker, “The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States,” An Address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888 -- Enforcement Act of 1870 -- United States v. Reese, Decided March 27, 1875 -- The Mississippi (1890), Louisiana (1898), and Virginia (1902) State Constitutions -- Mills v. Green Decided November 25, 1895 -- Giles v. Harris Decided April 27, 1903 -- The Court Says Yes… Sometimes. Guinn v. United States Decided June 21, 1915 -- The Early White Primary Cases: Nixon v. Herndon, Decided March 7, 1927; Nixon v. Condon, Decided May 2, 1932; and Grovey v. Townsend, Decided April 1, 1935 -- NAACP Correspondence, Memoranda, and Press Releases on Texas White Primary Case, 1940-1944 -- Smith v. Allwright Decided April 3, 1944 -- Memorandum on Smith v. Allwright, April 10, 1944 -- Davis v. Schnell Decided January 7, 1949 -- Gomillion v. Lightfoot Decided November 14, 1960 -- Breedlove v. Suttles Decided December 6, 1937 -- Decided April 17, 1950 South v. Peters -- Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections, Decided June 8, 1959 -- District Judge Frank M. Johnson Describes Voter Registration Practices in Elmore County, Alabama, June 17, 1964 -- 1965 Alabama Voting Registration Form: Literacy, Fitness, and Understanding Test -- The Reapportionment Dilemma: from “Political Thickets” to “One Person, One Vote”. Smiley v. Holm Decided April 11, 1932 -- Wood v. Broom Decided October 18, 1932 -- Colegrove v. Green Decided June 10, 1946 -- Baker v. Carr Decided March 26, 1962 -- Reynolds v. Sims Decided June 15, 1964 -- Justice Potter Stewart's Dissent in Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado, Decided June 15, 1964 -- Congressman Morris K. Udall on”One Man, One Vote,” October 14, 1964 -- Senator Everett Dirksen's Constitutional Amendment to Overturn the Supreme Court's Reapportionment Rulings, April 20, 1966 -- Florida Responds to the “One Person, One Vote” Requirement, 1962-1966 -- The Persistent Problem of Vote Denial and Vote Dilution: Enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Adoption of Majority-Minority Districting. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- South Carolina v. Katzenbach Decided March 7, 1966 -- Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, Decided March 24, 1966 -- Allen v. State Board of Elections Decided March 3, 1969 -- Oregon v. Mitchell Decided December 21, 1970 -- Editorial Debate over Renewal of the VRA in 1982 -- Shaw v. Reno Decided June 28, 1993 -- Appellant's Brief in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, 2009 -- Editorial Reactions to Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder (2009) and the 2006 Renewal of the VRA -- Regulating the Mechanics of Elections I: Political Parties and Campaign Finance Reform. Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin Ex Rel. La Follette, Decided February 25, 1981 -- Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut, Decided December 10, 1986 -- California Secretary of State's Voter Information Web Site for “Decline to State” Voters, Created after Implementation of the Modified Closed Primary System, 2001 -- Bill Number: SCA 4 Enrolled, February 19, 2009 -- Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as Amended in 1974) -- Case Summary of Buckley v. Valeo (Decided January 30, 1976) by the Federal Election Commission -- Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold Act) -- Congressman Ron Paul on McCain-Feingold, 2002 -- McConnell v. Federal Election Commission Decided December 10, 2003 -- Regulating the Mechanics of Elections II: Electoral Administration. Bullock v. Carter, Decided February 24, 1972 -- Davis v. Eandemer, Decided June 20, 1986 -- “Appellant LULAC's Reply Brief' and “State Appellees' Brief'' in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, Decided June 28, 2006 -- Editorial Commentary on the Texas Redistricting of 2003 and the Supreme Court's Ruling in LULAC v. Perry, 2004-2007 -- Excerpt from “Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States,” 1998 -- Justice Thurgood Marshall's Dissent in Richardson v. Ramirez, 1974 -- Conflicting Legal and Constitutional Opinions by Florida Officials on the Carrying Out of Election Recounts, November and December, 2000 -- Bush v. Gore Decided December 12, 2000 -- Analysis of the Indiana Voter ID Case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 2008.